Super P proves that Filipina wrestlers have a fighting chance in the world
When you ask a pro wrestler what they hope to achieve in their little quest, most will answer the same thing: to be able to wrestle in the highest levels of the game. Most will say they want to be a wrestler for WWE, the most popular wrestling company in the world. Some will answer a different company that’s popular with more hardcore fans.
Filipina wrestler and Championship Wrestling Entertainment (CWE) Vixen’s Champion Super P, however, took a huge step closer to her dreams by flying to the US last month to train and learn from WWE wrestlers.
This is a huge deal because wrestlers in the Philippines only ever get to learn from highly experienced foreign veteran wrestlers when they’re invited to “work” in Manila. I’ve been part of a few seminars and have been lucky enough to sit under the brief learning tree of these names that fans might recognize—the likes of TJ Perkins, Brian Kendrick, Yoshi Tatsu, and more.
But Super P was able to do something we local wrestlers only dare dream of because of the high monetary costs involved: actually go to the United States, the biggest wrestling market in the world, to train (and wrestle in a show).
The Lodestone that brought them all together
So how did this quick learning excursion happen?
You might have heard of a wrestling cultural phenomenon called WrestleMania—it’s the biggest wrestling show in the world every year. Even if you don’t watch the sport, you might have heard the fans in your life mention it around summertime in the Philippines.
WWE wrestler Bayley, a stalwart in the roster’s women’s division, started hosting a training seminar called Lodestone last December that aimed to help out up-and-coming women wrestlers from all around the world. The invite was open to the whole world of women’s wrestling, so long as you could actually make the trip to the US for the camp.
And during the week that WrestleMania was to happen in Las Vegas—the third week of April—Bayley scheduled the second Lodestone camp. And when Bayley put out the invite back in March, Super P was ready. “I wanted to apply for the first batch [in December 2025], but at the time, I wasn’t supposed to be [medically] cleared until Dec. 10 or 12, the week after [the first Lodestone camp],” says Super P.
Her 2025, which had started out highly promising, had been derailed by an ACL tear. Quick surgery and intense rehab had allowed her to start training near the end of 2025, but the doctors hadn’t given her the go signal yet. She had wrestled during her first match since the injury just before Christmas 2025.
“I couldn’t risk applying and participating in something that… Even though I feel like maybe I could already do it physically, after recovering from my ACL injury, I really wanted to wait for the doctor’s clearance,” she explains.
Super P jumped on the opportunity by booking a short-notice flight to Las Vegas in March. It certainly helped that she was already a US citizen, having been born in a US territory. After sending in her application, she waited three weeks before getting taken in—and that’s only when she booked the flight.
Aside from Lodestone, she was also able to land a wrestling booking in Spark Joshi Pro Wrestling, a company running a show during that big weekend where many wrestling fans were congregating.
“It was hard [to put together a trip that quickly] in the sense that it was expensive,” Super P says. “At the time, it was less than a month before the schedule, so the fare was very expensive. Add to that the fuel prices and other things happening in the world—that was the biggest hurdle.
“Luckily, I have some savings, but it’s painful that I had to dip into it,” she adds. This underscores a very real thing: to pursue our crazy dream, we have to shell out quite a bit, and in Super P’s case, she had to shell out a lot just to get some prime training.
Learning from the best
After all that’s been said and done, the wait and the price of being able to fly to the US, attending Lodestone, and getting booked to wrestle in Las Vegas were worth it.
Not only did Super P learn directly from a highly experienced WWE star like Bayley, but the connections also made it so that actual legends were able to drop by at the seminar. Legendary names such as Rey Mysterio and CM Punk were there as well as some of today’s top acts like Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch.
All of them were there to offer their brains for the picking—something you don’t get to say every day about training.
But the more important thing that Lodestone brings is the feeling of real sisterhood in training. Regular wrestling training outside of women-only companies is mixed-gender and is usually guided by the testosterone in the room. Tempers could flare, and pressures could stew, making for a learning environment that may not be apt for women who want to try wrestling. (It’s also why Puso Wrestling occasionally runs women-only training sessions—to provide a safer space for girls wishing to explore the life.)
“[The feeling of the seminar] was very encouraging. It felt like the women were really rooting for each other,” says Super P. “It felt very comfortable in the sense that even though some came from other countries, they didn’t really know each other—even though that was the case, we were comfortable with each other. We don’t get shy during wrestling drills; we all brought out the best in each other, we all brought out the best in our characters, and it was a very collaborative environment.”
And being in such a comfortable environment meant that it was easy to feel happy.
“I was just very happy to learn and to be affirmed that I’m doing a good job,” she says. One point of pride was that of all the people in the camp, Bayley was enamored by Super P and named her her favorite wrestler. She says she doesn’t know what she did to deserve that honor, but she’s taking it anyway.
Ultimately, the trip started out as something personal for her own growth, but ended up morphing into something more affirming for Philippine wrestling.
“When I applied for it, it was mostly just for me to learn more, to grow as a wrestler, and network,” Super P says. “But when word got out, it became clear to me that it was a bigger thing. The way I saw it was that people saw it as a sign that Pinay wrestlers can also make it internationally, in a major wrestling event such as WrestleMania week.”
“And I hope that my doing it is a sign that others can do it as well—it’s just about making Pinay wrestling more visible in the world.”
